antedates it and is basically not its own; one which results in conditions and situations which can render human life painful, morally disordered, even at times intolerable. The first eleven chapters of Genesis purport to be a history of early humanity. They include a lot of genealogical and chronological data which give the impression that the sequence of events takes place in real time: according to the biblical time chart, a little under two millennia. The principal characters
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